Spring Data Repository does not delete ManyToOne Entity

Question

I\'m am currently trying to use a Spring Data repository to delete some of my entities. The delete call works without any exceptions/error messages, but the entity is not delete

Answer 1

Building on the excellent answer from user2936091 above, I just wanted to mention a (related) workaround I stumbled upon today: if the parent entity is not fetched into the Hibernate context, you are able to delete it directly.

In my case this was achieved by setting fetch = FetchType.LAZY on the @ManyToOne relationship. I wanted this change for performance reasons anyway, and noticed that without the parent eagerly fetched Hibernate was free to delete it via the repository method call.